Today we are going to show you how to create a marketplace for digital goods. With the follwoing tutorial you learn about how to create a marketplace such gumroad or sellfy and sell any kind of file, video, music, documents, ebooks, photos etc. You also will learn how to set up properly a marketplace payment integration and get a % of any sale done within the site and create membership plans for sellers in order to give them flexibility when posting new digital goods. For this tutorial we are going to showcase our recently launched marketplace for digital goods: Sellbox (at the end of this post you will find a video step-by-step of How to create a Digital Goods Marketplace)

1.- Start

When launching a marketplace or any ecommerce site the first you need to know is your project name. In this case we chose Sellbox which is a great and a powerful name for your Digital Goods. I am not going to talk about naming, but in long term is important to have a great and short one.

Once ready with your name, go to Yclas.com we are going to create a Free marketplace now. Choose a name domain to start: sellbox.yclas.com (later we will change it to our own domain), then yclas will redirect your to the pricing page to select a plan. Here you have 2 options, you can start for Free or get a paid plan. We are going to explain this tutorial selecting the Growth Plan, which has SSL and is very important for marketplace payments.

2.- Setup your own domain

We can do this step later when your site is already configured, but we like to show this step now as it is a crucial part. Is the "less friendly" part and you must pay attention and follow the steps. Go to: https://yclas.com/panel/site and click on "Use your domain". Yclas will show you all the necesary steps to follow and setup your domain.

Also you can activate the SSL follwoing some steps.

3.- Marketplace configuration

Once your domain is set up you can start with your marketplace configuration. Go to https://yclas.com/panel/site and click "panel", you will access directly to your admin panel, where you can configure any feature Yclas have.

We will start with the look and feel and select your prefered theme. Go to Appearance - Themes: there you will find our selection and ready to use 14 fresh themes you can choose for your project. I would recommend, Yummo, Olson or Basecamp, so we chose Yummo.

Ohh your site is looking too good now, but do not forget add the logo for your project. We use this logo creator which is really easy to use it and cheap. Once done go to this favicon creator and create your favicon in seconds.

Now we can create the categories you want for your project. We decided to work with different categories (photos, music, ebooks, software, web templates, fonts, video and others) for our project Sellbox. In you admin panel - Classifieds - Categories you can create as many categories as you want, for instance an eBook Store you could create categories by subject.

Under admin panel - General you can setup your title, description, currency, etc. Click on "?" symbol to get more information of each configuration.

4.- Making money with your marketplace

When decided the launch Sellbox we wanted to create memberships for sellers in order to give them different options to list their digital goods. Membership plans is a powerful tool to create a SaaS Marketplace and so for generate money.

Now it is time to configure our payment processor Stripe. Stripe allows you to charge customers by credit cards and split a comission from any sale with the marketplace admin and seller. It is a great tool that automatize a difficult process. You can get full documentation on How to Stripe.

5.- Listings

In order to allow people to upload digital goods we integrated Dropbox and Google Picker (Google Drive). Sellbox allow sellers to sell any file they have in their Dropbox hassle free and directly synced. It is important to follow this steps

Now you could upload any file to Sellbox, whether it is an audio file and software script or any kind of document. You just need your dropbox account synced. You could post an item as "test" but what I really recommend is make a final touch to be more professional and serious.

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